OK..it's sort of a slow news day. All anyone wants to talk about is Megyn Kelly getting the 9pm slot at FOX News. So, rejoicing as I am in the completely unexpected success of my beloved Red Sox this season, and hopeful of pissing off as many Yankees fans as possible, I thought I'd start a baseball thread.

Sawx have the best record in baseball. Kudos to the front office for completely restructuring the team. And the Yankees are imploding..they're just about out of the playoffs..even with the addition of the second wild card.

Except for the NL East, which the Braves have all but locked up..we still have several exciting division and wild card races..

And there's always A-Rod...

Several years back..I did an ongoing baseball thread...if there's enough interest, judging by response, I'll start it again, and ping y'all..

Okay, I decided to see how far back the NYY’s are from the first place team vs. my lowly Seattle Mariners. Both are 11.5 games behind. Wow, if I were you I would be mad too; especially considering how much higher the NYY’s payroll is.

what is it with the penis envy of the Boston fans? They have a better team... move on. Yankees stink this year and probably for the next few unless they get a 250mil bailout like the Red Sox got from the Dodgers.

Once the Sox get to, say half the championships the Yankees have, then come back and brag.

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posted on 08/08/2013 11:58:40 AM PDT
by newnhdad
(Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)

A-Rod is very damaged goods. His history with the Yankees has been marked by strange off and on the field behavior. For example, his barking out a sound when the Toronto Blue Jays 3rd baseman was attempting to catch a pop fly. Or when he tomahawked the ball out of the Red Sox player’s glove while running to first base. Or his incredible claim that he only used anabolic steroids during the 3 years while he played for the Rangers. No one believes his stories, and he exudes a lack of class and tremendous amount of insecurity. While he won the Yankees a WS ring in ‘09, the rest of his tenure has been strange, at best, and dishonest at its worst. Yankees fans have always recognized the guy is a distraction, a cheater, and all about ME.

I am a lifelong Yankee fan who will admit that the reason the Yankees are as bad as they are goes straight to leadership...namely Joe Girardi. This clown should have stayed either with the Marlins or went to Chicago when he could have. IMHO, he cannot manage his way out of a piss soaked paper bag (Thanks George Patton). Now for the good part. The most interesting concept to me is which team will choke sooner and/or better, the Rays or the Red Sox? Too bad we can’t get them to sit down to the same pot of stew....they can choke nicely together. I wish them both luck, and I’m sure you kmow what kind, don’t you.

And the Yankees are imploding..they're just about out of the playoffsStill a looong way to go before the end of the season. Just ask Ralph Branca.And you really can't say the "Yankees" are imploding. The current roster is just a bunch of thrown together no-bodies and has-beens who weren't expected to win anyway.

Reds fan here. I’m stuck with the daily ineptness that is Dusty Baker. Look for the Reds to make the wild card game, go to St. Louis or Pittsburgh, get blown out and reward Dusty with an extension.

Last year with a two game to zero lead in a best of five series against the Giants, Bruce Bochy managed circles around Dusty. It was embarrassing. Dusty does not know how to close the deal in post-season play.

Considering you profile: Former Noo Yawka, now from Tampa area, you have strange affinities. I am glad the Sawx are having a good year, I attribute a LOT of it to John Farrell. Still, Tampa Bay consistently gets the most wins per payroll dollar of any team in the majors, playing in the most competitive division. John Maddon is flat out the best manager in baseball, imho. Farrell is the best Red Sox manager in my lifetime.

I still respect the Yankees, they have a long proud tradition. This year is lost, but they will almost certainly be back with a vengance.

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posted on 08/08/2013 1:18:20 PM PDT
by Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)

Our Red Sox are on top of the AL East, but it's a shaky lead, IMO. Their starting pitchers are shaky at best. Lackey has improved, but Lester seems to have lost it. Not sure what the heck is going on with Clay Buchholz, or how long he'll stay healthy whenever he returns.

Batters like Napoli (who is something like 0 for 17) and Brandon Snyder really need to either get glasses, or re-learn how to connect the bat with the ball... hubby and I cringe lately when they come up to bat.

The TB Rays are RED HOT, and have better pitching than the Red Sox, from what I've seen lately. Rays' outfielder Wil Myers is amazing. If Longoria recovers from that foot injury by the post-season, I think the Rays are going to be very hard to beat.

The Red Sox start a 4-game stand tonight at the also red-hot Kansas City Royals. In previous years, facing the Royals was like facing the current lowly Houston Astros. You expect a team like the Red Sox to win, if not sweep the series.

The Red Sox did not sweep the Astros (over the past 3 nights), and it was looking pretty dismal for the Sox last night until Stephen Drew hit a 3-run homer in the 9th.

A-Rod is very damaged goods. His history with the Yankees has been marked by strange off and on the field behavior. For example, his barking out a sound when the Toronto Blue Jays 3rd baseman was attempting to catch a pop fly. Or when he tomahawked the ball out of the Red Sox players glove while running to first base. Or his incredible claim that he only used anabolic steroids during the 3 years while he played for the Rangers. No one believes his stories, and he exudes a lack of class and tremendous amount of insecurity. While he won the Yankees a WS ring in 09, the rest of his tenure has been strange, at best, and dishonest at its worst. Yankees fans have always recognized the guy is a distraction, a cheater, and all about ME.

Perfectly said, and I remember those incidents you describe above, ie A-Fraud's "barking" when the Blue Jays' 3rd baseman was trying to catch a pop fly. What a classless jerk. Never liked him since Day One.

Of course now A-Fraud has proven to be a classless, lying, arrogant, selfish POS jerk.

Let me try and explain it for you...Having lived most of my live in the NYC suburbs, I have been blessed,and cursed, with a great many friends and acquaintances who are Yankees fans. And for nearly 50 years I suffered abuse...psychological as well as having beer thrown on me at Yankee Stadium just because I was wearing a Red Sox cap.

But Yankees fans all suffer from one collective illness. Mass amnesia. You see, for Yankees fans, 2004 never happened. Their baseball calendar goes from 2003-2004. They never talk about 2004.

The Yankees loss in the 2004 post season is the single greatest collapse, the greatest CHOKE ever in the long history of baseball, yet they never mention it. They've block it out. The Yankees were ahead 3-0 in the series, and ahead late in game 4..AND THEY BLEW IT. CHOKED!!!

I've been in Tampa since 2007, and go to about 15 games a year..all the Red Sox games, plus a few others. Rays are a very exciting team...awesome young pitching staff..and very dangerous. When the Red Sox are here, it's like Fenway south...more than half the crowd is wearing Red Sox stuff.

FYI..lots of Boston fans come down for a 3 game series. For the price of scalping two tickets at Fenway, let alone parking.. you can get airfare round rip, a decent hotel, game tickets, and enough left over for a few decent meals..

FYI..I grew up in the Bronx..a few miles from Yankee Stadium. In 1953..when I was 6..my aunt took me to my first ball game...she was a lifelong Yankees fan..going back to Murderer’s Row. After the game, she had me stand outside the player’s entrance..to try and get some autographs..None of the Yankees would stop tht day for this little kid. So, after an hour..we give up.. we’re walking up the hill to the subway..we go past the visitor’s entrance...the door opens, this man comes out..he was carrying several bats...he came over to me, knelt down, pulled out a bat, and spent about 5 minutes talking to me...and giving me “batting tips”..though I could barely hold the bat. The Yankees were playing the Red Sox that day, and the man was Ted Williams..and I became a lifelong fan..

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